Windsor, Connecticut, USA (Poquonock)
1854 - Windsor

Windsor, a post-township of Hartford county, Connecticut, bounded on the E. by the Connecticut river, and intersected by the Farmington river, 6 miles N. from Hartford. The first English settlement in the state was made here in 1633, by Captain William Holmes and others, who came from the Ply mouth colony in Massachusetts. The town ship contains three handsome and thriving villages, viz. Windsor, Windsor Locks, and Poquannock. Almost all the inhabitants of that portion of the township which was first settled reside in Windsor village, situated on the right bank of the Connecticut, and on the New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield rail road. It is built principally on a single street upwards of 2 miles in length, parallel with the river, and beautifully shaded. Windsor has been the birth-place of several eminent men, among whom may be mentioned Roger Wolcott, governor of Connecticut, and Oliver Ellsworth, for nearly four years chief- justice of the supreme court of the United States. Population in 1840, 2283 ; in 1850, 3264.

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

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